By Kieran Bergmann
The G8/G20 summits ended on Sunday, June 27 with the world focused on the standoff between protesters and police in Toronto. On the other side of the fence, the meetings themselves ended with world leaders largely ignoring international outrage about the impacts of ...read more
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The G8/G20 summits ended on Sunday with the world focused on the standoff between protesters and police in Toronto.
On the other side of the fence, the meetings themselves ended with world leaders largely ignoring international outrage about the impacts of fossil fuels, global climate change and ...read more
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By Kieran Bergmann
Tens of thousands of people gathered to peacefully march and demonstrate. But sadly, it does not look as though that is what will be remembered of Saturday's "People First: We Deserve Better" G20 Rally and March in Toronto. Instead, the images and media coverage of ...read more
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Check out footage from yesterday's Shout Out for Gender Justice! ...read more
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By Ellen Morgan
At yesterday’s picnic for Gender Justice in Allan Gardens, we caught a glimpse of the Canadian feminist movement in action. Sitting together in a loose circle on the grass, men and women from across the country explained why they had gathered to shout out for gender ...read more
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At today's Gender Justice Picnic in Allan Gardens, young feminists from around the country discussed why women need to be at the G8/G20 tables. Here's what one of them had to say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc6wAtQPXoY&feature=player_embedded
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With the G8/G20 summits just around the corner, Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai is calling upon world leaders to recognize the risks posed by climate change to global economic stability.
Climate changes 'threatens to bring more disasters, famine, disease, resource scarcity, human displacement and ...read more
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At the climate justice rally, we spoke with Rick Juliusson about gender and climate change. We first met Rick at Oxfam's Gender Justice Summit last weekend.
Watch Rick talk about the disproportionate effect that climate change has on women and what he would talk about if he had a seat at the ...read more
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